obedient children than others are, and who walk in closer communion with their Lord, and these have the best of the Christian life, and the highest degree of spiritual enjoyment. I hope that you and I, who call Christ our Shepherd, do love him much, and feel that the love of Christ constraineth us to yield to him our heart’s deepest affection. Another duty of the sheep is that of following the shepherd. It is a fractious, wandering, troublesome sheep that is always wanting to have its own way, and